International Workshop for Knowledge Learning and Sharing from Mega Disasters
World Bank, Tokyo, Japan
17-18 January, 2012
Dr. Mimi Sheller, Drexel Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, joined a team of international experts invited by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute to provide advice to the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) on lessons emerging from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami of March 2011 for developing countries. The team of 12 experts from the USA, Canada, China, India, Turkey and the UK convened at the World Bank Headquarters in Tokyo on January 17th-18th, 2012, to meet with senior development and risk managements specialists from the World Bank Institute, high level government representatives from several Ministries of the Government of Japan, and Japanese academics and NGO’s.
A second meeting will take place in May. The final report will be presented at the IMF/World Bank annual meeting, which will take place in Sendai, Japan in October 2012, conveying the findings to all of their member states. Topics covered in the meeting included structural and non-structural (social) risk reduction measures, emergency response and preparedness, the recovery process and reconstruction planning, improving hazard and risk information and decision making, and the economics of disaster risk management and financing.
Dr. Mimi Sheller
